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Grievers (Paperback)
Ronald R. Hanna
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R435
Discovery Miles 4 350
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Cell Bait (Paperback)
Ronald R. Hanna
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R468
Discovery Miles 4 680
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Spirits (Paperback)
Ronald R. Hanna
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R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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War of the Gods (Paperback)
Ronald Ricardo Hanna, Ronald R. Hanna
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R506
Discovery Miles 5 060
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The latter half of the 21st century, and ills mankind has grown
used to for the past 75 years have proven a medical disaster.
Cheap, throw-away cellular devices have contributed to the
development of a species known as "C-Pheads," for the cell phone
emissions that have impacted their heads in a way detrimental to
cognitive reasoning. A full diet of genetically engineered food for
a lifetime has reduced millions to uncaring, unfeeling, unnatural
individuals. These are known as "G-Engines." Together, undergirded
by mass use of a designer drug, the planet is replete with evil,
vicious people. The only chance for the afflicted lies in the hands
of the wise, almost spiritual developments of a boy born minutes
after his esteemed great-grandfather's death. Babatunde Genelle is
blessed with the impacting spirit of the wise old man, and builds a
multi billion-dollar corporation whose main products reverse the
impact of the global maladies.
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Joogie (Paperback)
Ronald R. Hanna
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R426
Discovery Miles 4 260
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The boys grew up in a most tumultuous era, the late 1960s into the
even more turbulent 1970s, in a Washington, D.C. where remnants of
segregation still predominated. They lived in a group of ramshackle
public housing projects, and with external prodding, believed they
could leave poverty and the projects through selling "joogie," or
heroin, to finance their escape. In truth, all they managed to do
was enslave many of their peers on the deadly substance, and
additionally ensure an early, violent death for themselves.
From a very young age, these boys saw no way out of their
Washington, D.C. public housing projects unless they sold drugs.
But the young hustlers, by the time they reach adulthood, have
wreaked havoc on their own neighborhood, generated thousands of
dollars for others, and when checking their own "bank" for those
who survive to adulthood, find they have nothing.
Internet dating in the D.C. Metropolitan area. SoccerMom1972 of
Wheaton; SE Sheila of Anacostia; Stacked&Bound of the
Palisades; The CandyLicker of 14th Street; Seasoned Suzanne of
Arlington; WhiteChocolateandLavender of Oxon Hill; NattyDreads of
Palmer Park; PiecesofDreams of Congress Park; LilNYSweety of Adams
Morgan. Diversity of race, sexual desires, age and background. All
frequenting on line dating sites with D.C. area connections. All in
search of...something What WILL they find? Will their find be
willing? Thrilling? Or perhaps chilling?
Why didn't they just pay their damn taxes? That question is asked
of many in the film and recording industry who make millions in
profits yet fail to keep abreast of their tax liabilities. Such was
the case with Krystal Jackson, multi-platinum selling songstress
from Washington, D.C. who excels, but barely avoids jail on tax
evasion charges. Fortunately she quickly comes to realizes that a
cousin with an accounting degree earned on line is not the person
to be handling her millions in income, and she finally comes to
terms with local and federal governments concerning her arrear
taxes. Unfortunately, too many of her colleagues fail to realize
that taxes are as certain as death, and some, worth millions on
paper, find that their vast fortunes can buy little in the
commissary of a federal penitentiary.
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The 92 (Paperback)
Ronald R. Hanna
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R511
Discovery Miles 5 110
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Willette Jenkins was blacker than poet James Weldon Johnson's
hundred midnights. Her family moved to Washington, D.C. in the
early 1950s during a time when a lot of blacks in America were as
"color-struck" as many of the nation's white citizens. Willette was
a considerable beauty, with a darkness that virtually shined and
features which would fit well in ancient Egyptian artwork. She was
a most sought after young lady by men who were seeking first-hand
proof of the old maxim, "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the
cherry." And if Willette was viewed as fruit by young suitors, she
was set on ensuring that her sweetness was of the kind hanging low
in the tree, and easily accessible. Janet Jenkins was of a much
lighter hue, a tone many blacks derisively called "high-yellow."
They were sisters, and very close. But Willette would go on to give
birth to seven children, by six different men, while Janet would go
on to college. Janet was a sports fanatic and a "tom boy," at a
time when women who preferred the close company of other women was
not a subject discussed or even acknowledged among a black
population where many social activities centered around the church.
Willette and Janet were as different as night and day. But while
Willette would become a shame to her aging mother for "chasing
men," Janet would find it hard to appease a strict Baptist family
for what seemed to be her desire to chase women. And as safe and
assured as Janet's path seemed to be, it was the chasing of a more
deadly substance by Willette which would eventually find Janet as
overseer of her sister's seven children. Tragically, they'd
eventually all be set adrift on the cold streets of "Glenfield
Terrace."
Why would a multi-platinum, multimillion-dollar earning recording
artist devolve into what any critical analysis would describe as
being an unrepentant cokehead? Certainly there are challenges
unseen by an admiring public which most successful artists have to
deal with constantly, almost 24-hours a day. Yet there are
hundreds, thousands of artists who shun the use of illegal
substances, and even those who avoid even consumption of alcohol.
Sirena Lavesque, known around the world simply as Siren, was not
one of them. After a near fatal overdose and months of rehab, Siren
would recover and go on to build her own billion-dollar recording
and performance empire. But her own near fatal experience would
steel her towards any who so much as smoked a cigarette, including
in time her own daughter.
Ricky Jackson had done it all, primarily along with his crew. He
started drinking beer at the tender age of 14, moved on to
marijuana and on occasion shot "joogie," or heroin, with his
friends. But his friends kept on shooting joogie, and Ricky didn't
particularly like the feel of being "comatose." But he found other
highs on the streets of D.C.: Angel Dust; "Luv Boat" or Pcp;
Dilaudids or "Ds;" Preludin/Bam. By the time he decided to try
crack cocaine, all of his heroin-addicted friends were long dead.
And he would be dead too, if he kept up the use of crack.
_x000D__x000D_On a final, near fatal "voyage" on Pcp, called
"Dippers" by this time, Ricky tripped back over all of the highs he
had experienced in life, and in an almost mystical sojourn, he
wrenched himself free from a lifetime of varietal drug use. His
near fatalistic voyage had at last ended.
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Shadows (Paperback)
Ronald R. Hanna
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R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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He was a wealthy American businessman, took a break from the hustle
and bustle, went to Jamaica and found a most alluring exotic dance
club. In time, he became enamored of one particular dancer. But
with all his wealth, could he get the young lady off the pole and
turn this "honey" into a housewife?
In the heart of Washington, D.C. there is an ongoing conflict. It
is simmering just below the surface most days, and periodically
boils to the surface late at night with unexpected, often violent
outcomes. The conflicting personalities are as diverse in social
background as they are in physical appearance: the historic blacks
of the Shaw and Adams Morgan communities, and the "new gentry,"
most young, most white, many gay. The community's conversions are
nearing completion, with the last generation of the historic
residents unable to keep up with soaring property values,
disappearing rental properties, and the continuation of gun- and
drug-fueled violence which for so long has plagued these
communities. But many are determined to hold on, and the younger
ones, fueled by need, some by greed, and many by hatred, do what
they feel is necessary to "get paid."
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The Bank (Paperback)
Ronald R. Hanna
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R572
Discovery Miles 5 720
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The international financial development communities and the
diplomatic communities in Washington, D.C. and New York City are
rocked to their very foundations when members of the terrorist
organization al Qaeda Norte unleash devastating attacks on a number
of major cities throughout the American mainland. Foreign nationals
come under intense scrutiny, and xenophobia runs rampant. The hated
terrorist leader Raheem Karza has secreted dozens of sleeper cell
members in clandestine safe houses around major metropolitan areas,
many occupying comfortable flats in and around New York City,
Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. To ensure that extensive physical
trauma and a destructive economic impact is achieved, Karza hits
the American mainland with a series of assaults, subway blasts and
toxic chemicals. But his most destructive assault is the dispensing
of the mind control drug Demi3Alpha through cola machines at a
number of the nation's fast food establishments. The resulting
trauma impacts not only the nation, but major metropolitan areas
around the globe. Karza and his minions are sought with vigor
internationally, but they prove quite elusive. Until the mysterious
Smith N. Reston, a former operative of a secretive U.S.
intelligence agency, comes out of retirement to seriously address
the ongoing assaults. And when Mr. Reston goes after Karza and his
associates, most everyone involved in the assaults experiences
torturously brief moments to seriously regret having ever taken up
arms against the United States of America.
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